* general election 2010
MPs have voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the growing number of women facing police investigations for this. Today it has expressed delight at MPs standing up for… Read more »
Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson has been awarded an OBE for ‘services to the non-religious’ in the UK national honours announced today. This is the first time an award has been made for services to the non-religious, who now represent a majority of the UK’s population. Andrew Copson has worked for Humanists UK since… Read more »
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By Sam Dale The Conservatives have won in Ealing Central and Acton, sending them another seat closer to the 300-mark. Angie Bray was elected with 17,944 votes after a five per cent swing from Labour and clear daylight over her Liberal Democrat opponent. Labour’s Bassam Mahfouz received 14,228 votes and was down 3.2%, while the… Read more »
By Sabine Klensch Labour candidate Glenda Jackson has won the three-way marginal seat of Hampstead and Kilburn with an extremely narrow majority of 42 votes over Conservative Chris Philip. Surprisingly enough the Lib Dems, who had high hopes for this newly created seat as their number six target, ended on third position with 31.2% of… Read more »
